Yet another reason why XP sucketh.

I tweaked the driver for the wireless card, and finally got it to start
connecting to a wireless router. Surely you can imagine my elation and
excitement as I found a working Internet!

Except... well... why is the router named 'linksys'??

Yes. Windows XP will not connect to MY netgear router, but it will happily
[when I'm walking in the right part of the house] connect to my
neighbour's Linksys network. In fact, as I had DHCP turned on, Windows XP
happily just broke the law for me.

To make it worse, even though I know the unsecured Linksys network is
there next door, there's no obvious way to avoid connecting to it.

The Apple machines in the house however are happily still working.

-1 to Microsoft for making it automatic to invade my neighbours network.

Hen



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